Hello folks,

I have a proposed addition to CVS that I'm a little nervous about adding without consulting others first. I did a little cut-modify-and-paste of some existing functions, and I have a first pass on code that allows one to modify the help search path. It's not pretty or well-tested, but I hope some will agree that's what CVS is for...

The usage is pretty straightforward: -helppath <path> -- add to help file search path

It works in the same order that you might expect from the -path command- line option (since it is basically a simplified version of the same search function).

Some thoughts: 1) It's on Miller's to-do list in notes.txt. Might be a good thing to get to it now; might be a bad thing to do it the "wrong" way. 2) The code is definitely a hack. It's not even a good one. 3) I would *really* like this functionality to be in at least one version of Pd... IMHO, it would *really* help the usability, especially on MacOSX, so that there's a unified place for newbies to install externals from the Finder. (e.g., /Library/Pd/externals and /Library/Pd/help, which could be over-ridden by stuff in ~/Library/Pd )

I haven't checked anything in, yet, but the code is ready to go.

Cheers, adam